Game Description: Epic's mega-hit franchise returns for a second round as Marcus Fenix and the rest of the COG forces continue to fight against the massive Locust horde occupying their planet of Sera. The game also ups the ante on the multiplayer side, upping the competitive modes to 5-on-5 and including a new cooperative "Horde" mode that pits players against 50 increasingly difficult waves of Locust enemies.

Gears of War 2 News

Tonight at 6:30 PM ET, X-Play travels to Seattle to score an interview with Michael Capps, the President of Epic Games, about the upcoming Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection.
Gears fans, for the record, this expansion looks to be, umm, epic. In the interview, Capps talks about the success of the Gears franchise, Epic's desire to bring fans...

Quick show of hands: Who enjoyed seeing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson star as everyone’s favorite anonymous space marine tasked with eliminating the forces of Hell in that Doom movie a few years back? Well, your reaction to this story will depend largely on how you answered that question.
According to the MTV Movies Blog, the...

Epic has been pretty good with post-release support thus far, but they are about to kick things into overdrive. On July 28th, we'll be getting the "All Fronts Collection" for Gears of War 2. The collection will include every multiplayer map released thus far (Flashback, Combustible, and Snowblind) along with seven (!) new maps in the...

The Savannah College of Art & Design is hosting its Game Developers eXchange, and today at 5PM ET, Epic Games' Andrew Bains, senior level designer of the Gears of War series, will discuss the theory of level design and how it informs everything the Gears team does.
Can't make it to Georgia on such short notice? Don't worry. Because the...

Here's a tip for you if your Tuesday is getting a little dull: Head on over to Xbox LIVE and download the Snowblind map pack for Gears of War 2. It's going to be a cold day in multiplayer hell... This winter-themed pack of four maps for multiplayer and Horde action will cost you 800 Microsoft points.
Here's what's on the agenda:
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Winter may be over, but that doesn't mean violent fragging action can't march on through hostile, tundra-like arenas in Gears of War 2.
In Epic's third map pack, you'll frag your friends through a winterland of death and destruction in the "Snowblind Map Pack." It will be available for download via XBL Marketplace on March 31. If...

Fallout 3 was honored with the coveted Game of the Year award at the Game Developers Choice Awards held last night in San Francisco. Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG beat out Fable II, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet and Grand Theft Auto IV for the honor. LittleBigPlanet took home the most awards -- Sony's PS3 platformer won nearly half of all the...

Microsoft has dropped the dates that some highly anticipated downloadable content will hit Xbox Live for blockbuster titles Gears of War 2 and Halo 3. Here are the details:
Gears of War 2: The "Snowblind" map-pack will be available on March 31st, for 800 Microsoft Points. This map pack gives Gears of War 2 players a chance to try...

Epic Games has finally locked down a date for the infamous "Title Update 3," which will be released on March 24 as a free update to the game. After that, the Snowblind Map Pack containing three new maps and an update of "Fuel Depot" from the original Gears of War will be released on March 31.
At the helm of the new update...

During New York Comic Con, Joshua Ortega, writer for Gears of War, claimed that the series was on a ten-year plan:
“You will not be disappointed in the next ten years. It’s a ten-year plan. Gears is long-term. The lancer is the new lightsaber.”
First of all, wow. The lancer, while awesome, is no lightsaber. Second of all, ten...

Ok, now that everyone's calmed down, we can have a cool, rational conversation, right?
This week, Adam takes on one of everyone's favorite topics; multiplayer. This aspect of gaming has added so much to our experiences, but it may have gotten a bit out of hand. It appears that a lot of games add on multiplayer as an afterthought, hoping to...

Think Services has announced the finalists for the Game Developers Choice Awards. The awards take place in March during the company's Game Developers Conference. The company's press release noted that, "Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet leads the nominees for the awards with seven nominations, including the coveted Game of the Year...

Voicing one of America's most beloved film characters can't be easy, so it's good that EA has decided to go with a veteran of game acting to portray Michael Corleone in the upcoming The Godfather II game. That man? Carlos Ferro, whose voice you will recognize as Dom from Gears of War and Gears of War II. Looks like it was just as easy as a...

As a companion to my earlier story about the PlayStation Network's downloads, below, you'll find the stats for last week's Xbox Live activity. Call of Duty: World at War is at the top of the charts, and Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 are second and third. Also, there's a new category this week: community games. It tracks how many full versions of...

To hype the upcoming release of the re-tooled Friday the 13th flick, Xbox and Warner Brothers are teaming up to bring you a sweepstakes where you can win Gears of War 2 merchandise daily, and 13 grand prize packages that include a flat-panel LCD TV...and all you have to do to take part is play some Gears 2!
All you need to do is register your...

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